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Such are Mr. Growers experiments upofi 

 this very vaUiable plant : Next I fhall pre- 

 fent you with his general inftruQions for 

 the cultivation of cabbages, the effect of his 

 experience. 



Soon after Michaelmas^ the land fhould be 

 ploughed and limed at the rate of a chaldron 

 per acre. In the fpring it is to be ploughed 

 twice more, and thrown the fecond time into 

 ridges, four feet afunder. 



The feed for winter plants fhould be 

 fown in Augujl^ as foon as you can get it, 

 and pricked out into a piece of good land 

 at Michaelmas about eight or nine inches 

 afunder ; and into the field along the above 

 ridges, two feet from plant to plant, in 

 March — the fooner the better. 



For fpring plants, the feed muft be fown 

 in February ; and pricked out or not as it 

 happens ; it is not fo neceflary as with the 

 winter plants. The end of May^ or the be- 

 ginning of June^ is the time for tranfplant^ 

 ing them to the ridges, which feafon will 

 allow a third fpring plowing. 



They are never to be watered ; not but 

 in fome feafons it might be beneficial ; but, 

 upon the whole, they do extremely well 

 without it; and the work is not only ex- 

 penfive but very troublefome. 



As foon as the plants are ftrong enough 

 to bear earth againft them, and ftand of 

 themfeives, then turn a furrow from them, 



and 



